GamerFitNation: The holiday season is a time of celebration, and a time for family. During this time guys will try and get their girlfriends into gaming. Getting a girl into gaming may be the hardest thing that any gamer guy will face. Many girls want some sort of attachment; so choosing a game that has a good story will create that attachment. Another way to create attachment is by having customization. The final thing that will bring a girl into gaming would be a pretty game, if you have a bad looking game then why would any one, let alone a new gamer, want to play the game?
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
A new Partner Spotlight Sale is now live on the Switch eShop, including Skyrim, lowest price ever for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and more.
Do women magazines and websites have similar stuff? "How to get your man into flower arranging" and other such crap? I think it's perfectly healthy for people to have "their own thing" in relationships which they don't share with their significant other. It's not about your girlfriend/wife or whatever enjoying gaming or whatever hobby, it's about them understanding and most importantly respecting that you enjoy it.